Thursday, December 17, 2015

(picture made on PicCollage)
Today's my blogiversary! It has been THREE years since I started this blog. That's crazzzyyyy. The years go by so quickly. I remember starting this blog to document my life, then I converted it into a blog that shares my hobbies. Thank you to everyone who reads my blog and uses my patterns! It means a lot to me. Even though I have been posting little due to the busy life of high school, I still plan to post as much as I can.

Sooo much has happened since I started this blog. A few of the highlights are:

Saturday, November 7, 2015

I have been collecting kawaii socks for a few months, and these are some of my favourites. Most of them were purchased from Korea( two of them were gifts from a friend who got them in K-town in Los Angeles)

Saturday, October 31, 2015

I always wanted to make myself a sweater but never had the patience to make one. Quickly, I glanced at the pattern, and it is really easy and quick to make!

First, I bought 5 balls of Bernat Softee Chunky yarn in "Grey Ragg" because grey is one of my favourite colours.

Since I am super short, I did ended up using 4 balls of the grey yarn.

To make the sweater, I used my 10mm crochet hook:

To start making the sweater, I crocheted a long chain ( I chained 65 chains). Then, I single crocheted in the back loops of every stitch.

Doesn't the ribbed texture look beautiful?

After crocheting a long rectangle( the width of the rectangle was the length of my right shoulder to my left shoulder), I folded the entire piece in half. The ribbed texture should be going verticle instead of horizontal

After folding it in half, I sewed the sides only half way and left a hole at the sides. After I unfolded the sweater and added a collar, my sweater looked like this:

Tada!!

I am really happy with how this sweater turned out. This was my first time making a sweater, and it was really easy to make! I am definitely going to wear this sweater all fall and winter. :)

Sunday, October 25, 2015

I was looking through all of my patterns that I posted on this blog, and I really wanted to remake my Tunisian Crochet Headband which I posted a very long time ago.

Since I lost the original headband that I made, I crocheted a new one.

For my previous headband, I used Red Heart Super Saver Solids in Shocking Pink, but this time, I used Lily Sugar and Cream cotton yarn in Overcast. This yarn is a beautiful shade of grey mixed with taupe.

To start off, I chained 10 with my 5.0mm crochet hook:

Then began to Tunisian crochet across till I was satisfied with the length:

Isn't the Tunisian crochet stitch so pretty? I love the texture! :)

If you do not know how to crochet the Tunisian crochet stitch, here is a great video:

Next, I sewed the ends together to make a loop

Then, I wrapped a long strand of yarn in the center and weaved in the loose ends.